"Shit matters, even if we can't understand it"

Brad Neely is still a genius.

Super Deluxe - I Am Baby Cakes - Diary #3

Return To Oz | The A.V. Club

Nathan Rabin posts to Onion's A.V. Club Blog about Walter Murch's criminally underrated Return to OZ

Return To Oz is the kind of primally unsettling kid’s film whose cultural resonance can be measured not just in terms of box-office and reviews but also in the number of bad dreams and traumatic memories it inspires. On that level the film’s unqualified success. It’s the stuff nightmares are made of.

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Diagonals, Friday 23rd, Carousel Lounge

My band Diagonals is playing an impromptu show at Carousel Lounge in Austin this friday, I believe we are playing with Fairchild. Not sure what time yet.

Manufactured Landscapes | Austin Film Society

This Wednesday in Austin, if you are looking for a beautiful/horrifying visual experience to stick a fork in the eye of your valentine's day, go see Manufactured Landscapes, a documentary about Canadian photographer Edward Burtynsky.

[...] Edward Burtynsky uses a large-format camera to capture ironically beautiful images of massive industrial incursions on Nature – powerful dams, gigantic factories, massive quarries, far-flung strip-mines, and sprawling cities. One may look at his photographs and revel in their beauty and weep at their meaning as the dismantling of planet Earth accelerates at a pace unparalleled in history. Canadian documentarian Jennifer Baichwal traveled to China and Bangladesh to film Burtynsky searching for damning evidence of rapid change, growth, and destruction. Baichwal’s movie camera complements Burtynsky’s still photographs by moving about and taking us into, over, and around the very locations that mark such massive change [...]

Manufactured Landscapes | Austin Film Society

The Laughing Bone - Images: FringeWare

Bonsey Jones has found a secret tomb of ephemera from the days of the FringeWare store. FringeWare was an important part of my life during its existence and seeing these pictures has a very powerful effect on me.



The Laughing Bone - Images: FringeWare

Sunday

The last couple of weeks have been bumpy to say the least. I woke up this morning feeling like angry gnomes had been beating me all night with bags of cinderblocks. I haven't been posting anything substantive lately due to my important work for the government deciding how much katsup should go in those little plastic one-serving packets and whether most Americans can deal with seeing it spelled katsup or if it should be ketchup. Also all 600 of my grandmas died at once and left me a valentines day card that reads "Fuck you, you're ugly".

On to the news-
I'm going to have a video installation at a gallery show in Japan! If you happen to be in Kitakyushu in March, go check it out.

I'm hoping to be able to put together a multi screen piece to put in a gallery in Austin, but it's slow going because of all those dead grandmas. I've been drinking clorox the last few days out of grief and I've only just gotten back on my feet today, just in time for my Tai Chi class.

It's ok to go crazy

Bobby Conn

Drifting: A Director's Log: The Best Worst Movie

David Lowery on the Troll 2 screening at the Alamo

Vertigo Magazine, Article - RECLAIMED: The Tokyo Mystery, by By Ben Slater

Saint Jack author Ben Slater interviews Magnus Bärtås about Chris Marker's early film, Le Mystère Koumiko In Vertigo Magazine.
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